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Only one vote behind Keene in the voting was Richard W. Mechem, and he was followed, again by a one vote margin, by Dean M. Hennessey. Sidney O, Smith, Jr. was five votes behind, with a total...
...Idaho crop and big fractions of Oregon's, Nebraska's and Maine's; 3) Maine shippers were short of refrigerator cars; 4) OPA's ceilings, as usual, did not apply to growers. And many growers held out for prices too high to give wholesalers any margin at all. As a result of these factors, the public took to sporadic-and senseless-hoarding...
...Board lurched successfully through the minefield of the week, voting to reject demands for a general wage increase for 220,000 workers in eight West Coast aircraft plants. But the margin of success was narrow (the vote was 7-to-5). Thus far the Board had not jettisoned its heavy cargo, the wage-raise yardstick (15% increases to cover the rise in living costs to May 1942), but all around the angry waters of inflation were lashed ever higher by labor's big winds...
Wall Street was not rejoicing over this boom in bad bargains. Such buying troubles brokers: it takes little account of intrinsic values. Further, the dogs-once they get out of line-almost invariably fall faster than they rise. As market fluctuations go, cash-&-carry buying itself is safer than margin buying by unsophisticated bargain hunters-though smart-money margin buyers often tend to stabilize the market. But traditionally the cash buyer is the same little fellow who would rather have 100 bad shares at 2 than four good ones at 50. And brokers have an old maxim: the time...
...spring is apt to make Allied ships and hearts sink fast. The past few months have also seen vast extensions of Allied military lines, and campaigns of spring and summer are apt to stretch them farther yet. New construction is not outstripping new sinkings by a great enough margin to carry accumulating stocks of war and meet all the new demands. Result: much potential U.S. striking power may be immobilized on U.S. docks...